Animal-releasing device.



A. FEDDERSEN.

ANIMAL RELEASING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 1, 1914.

1,120,295, Patented Dec. 8, 1914.

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ADOLF FEDDERSEN, 0F MURDO, SOUTH DAKOTA.

ANIMAL-RELEASING DEVICE.

Application filed April 1, 1914.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ADoLr FEDDERSEN, a subject of the Emperor of Germany, residing at Murdo, in the county of Lyman and State of South Dakota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ammal-Releasing Devices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in animal releasing devices and its object is to produce a device of this class that is simple in construction and efficient in operat1on.

With the foregoing and other objects in view the invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter fully described in the following specification, pointed out in the claims and illustrated in the accompanying drawing which forms a part of said specification and in which- Figure 1 is a sectional plan of a stable provided with my improved animal releasing device. Fig. 2 is a plan v1ew of two complete units forming part of a possible series composed of my animal releasing devices. Fig. 3 is a section taken on line 33 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is an edge view of the terminal unit in a series composing a complete releasing mechanism. Fig. 5 is a view taken on line 5-5 of Fig. 41.

Like reference characters indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views.

The reference numeral 1 indicates a stable provided with the ordinary partitions 2 forming a series of stalls. To the building wall or stable wall within each stall I secure one of a series of connected units which taken together comprise my animal releasing device and each unit comprlses a base plate 3 which is fastened by screws, bolts or other suitable means direct to the wall aforesaid. Each plate 3 is provided with an angular casting 4 to which one end of an approximately semi-circular keeper 5 is pivotally secured by a stud 6, the opposite end of said keeper being apertured and adapted for releasable engagement with a curved pin 7 disposed a short distance above the base plate and carried by a bolt 8 sl dably disposed in brackets 9, 9 secured ad acent each other upon the base plate 3. Brackets 10 also carried by the base plates 3 carry a sliding rod 11 which extends through the division walls of the several Specification of Letters Iatent.

Patented Dec. 8, 1914.

Serial No. 828,697.

stalls in the stable and through one end wall in the stable and terminates in an operating handle 12; the opposite end of said rod passing through a stop plate 13 carried by the base plate 3 of the terminal unit in the series and said rod end is provided with a collar 14: and a spring 15 abutting said collar and the stop plate 13. The rod 11, moreover, is provided adjacent the brackets 10 with curved release pins 16 which are disposed in alinement with the apertures in the keepers 5 (which keepers carry the halter rings 5 by which the animals are secured in their stalls) and when the rod 11 is moved in its brackets against the tension of the spring 15 the release pins 16 will enter the apertured ends of the keepers 5 and force therefrom the pins 7 by moving them and the sliding bolts 8 into the positions shown dotted in one portion of Fig. 2. l/Vhen the rod 11 is released the spring 15 will draw the same, together with the release pins, back into normal position and the keepers 5 will be free and through gravity will move into the position shown dotted in Fig. 3 permitting the animals in the several stalls to disengage their halter rings therefrom and leave their stalls.

What is claimed is 1. In an animal releasing device, a plurality of units each comprising a base plate, a spring-pressed operating rod slidably disposed above the base plates of the several units, a keeper pivotally associated with each base plate, a sliding bolt carried by each base plate adjacent said keeper, a curved pin carried by said sliding bolt for releasable locking engagement with said keeper and a release pin carried by said operating rod capable of engagement, through the operation of said rod, with the said curved pin to disengage the same from the said keeper.

2. In an animal releasing device, a plurality of units each comprising a base plate, a spring-pressed operating ro slidably disposed above the base plates of the several units, a terminally apcrtured keeper pivotally associated with each base plate and disposed in a plane at right an les to the plane of the operating rod, a siding bolt carried by each base plate adjacent said keeper and operative in a plane at right an les thereto, a curved pin carried by said sli ing bolt for releasable locking engagement With said keeper and a release pin carture in the presence of tWo subscribing Witried by said operating .rod'and disposed in nesses. alinement With the aperture in the end of said keeper for disengaging the aforesaid ADOLF FEDDERSEN' 5 curved pin from said keeper. Witnesses:

In testimony that I claim the foregoing J C. DUFFY, as my oWn I have hereto afiixed my signa- V. N. BAUNN.

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Washington, D. C. 

